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Old 08-22-2012, 10:25 AM   #261
FlamingLonghorn
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Originally Posted by BruinsFan10101 View Post
Yeah, it is pretty screwed up that men & boys today get virtually zero assistance when it comes to being the victims of domestic violence or rape. Even though these are clearly problems affecting both genders at roughly the same degree.
...In fact, there are so manly people in society today who have been so miseducated by decades of feminist propaganda, that they are virtually incapable of recognizing male victims of anything, much less helping them. So you could say men actually have negative help from society.
If it were this way for women, you could bet your bottom dollar society wouldn't tolerate that for a red second. (nor should it).

But the part that makes this seem like we're living in the bloody twilight zone is where we have government policies, organizations & charities (funded by taxpayer dollars) that exist to lend aid to ONLY the female victims in society. & everybody frames these issues as though male victims don't even exist!
Here are 286 scholarly investigations: 221 empirical studies and 65 reviews and/or analyses that prove otherwise:
http://www.csulb.edu/~mfiebert/assault.htm
Its just absolutely insane!

When is society going to get a grip on reality here? Men are human beings too. What if we woke up tomorrow & the homepage of the Flames website read:
"Jerome Iginla shot dead by wife while sleeping".
I think a great many people would care about THAT. But why doesn't that same attitude translate to all men in society? Why do we only have sympathy & humanity for males who are in our own families or men who can do #### for us?
It's all pretty ####ed up.
Actually I think people care about domestic murders equally. If a woman murders her husband it will make the news, likewise if a man murders his wife it will make the news. Neither will be a national story unless it is a celebrity (ie Phil Hartman).

I agree men do need shelters and protection. However, to blame this on feminist propaganda is absurd. It's more due to the macho facade that society has created for men over thousands of years and how men are supposed to behave/act. I have never seen anything put out by feminists that would make me believe that male victims don't exist.
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